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20202026
most citedSelf-Supervised Representation Learning for Speech Using Visual Grounding and Masked Language Modeling

19 citations · 40 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.AS2026

RUBATO: Decoupled Clocks Allow Full-Duplex Models to Think as Fast as They Can

Yi-Jen Shih, Puyuan Peng, Haohe Liu +2

Recent Speech Full-Duplex (FDX) models are capable of engaging in naturalistic conversation by listening and speaking at the same time. Building on this foundation, recent architec…

cs.SD2026

EmoRES-TTS: Residual-Enhanced Vector Steering for Emotional Speech Generation

Kuan-Po Huang, Haohe Liu, Puyuan Peng +5

Emotion-conditioned text-to-speech (TTS) models may fail to express the requested emotion reliably, and improving controllability by additional training is costly in both computati…

eess.AS2026

RetroThinker: Enabling Retrospective Thinking in Speech LLMs

Yi-Jen Shih, Puyuan Peng, Abdelrahman Mohamed +1

Speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) offer reduced latency and retain paralinguistic nuances that are typically lost in cascaded automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-ba…

eess.AS2025

VoiceCraft-X: Unifying Multilingual, Voice-Cloning Speech Synthesis and Speech Editing

Zhisheng Zheng, Puyuan Peng, Anuj Diwan +5

We introduce VoiceCraft-X, an autoregressive neural codec language model which unifies multilingual speech editing and zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis across 11 languages:…

eess.AS2025

VoiceStar: Robust Zero-Shot Autoregressive TTS with Duration Control and Extrapolation

Puyuan Peng, Shang-Wen Li, Abdelrahman Mohamed +1

We present VoiceStar, the first zero-shot TTS model that achieves both output duration control and extrapolation. VoiceStar is an autoregressive encoder-decoder neural codec langua…

cs.CV2025

VoiceCraft-Dub: Automated Video Dubbing with Neural Codec Language Models

Kim Sung-Bin, Jeongsoo Choi, Puyuan Peng +3

We present VoiceCraft-Dub, a novel approach for automated video dubbing that synthesizes high-quality speech from text and facial cues. This task has broad applications in filmmaki…

cs.CL2024

Dynamic-SUPERB Phase-2: A Collaboratively Expanding Benchmark for Measuring the Capabilities of Spoken Language Models with 180 Tasks

Chien-yu Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Shu-wen Yang +77

Multimodal foundation models, such as Gemini and ChatGPT, have revolutionized human-machine interactions by seamlessly integrating various forms of data. Developing a universal spo…

cs.CL2024

SyllableLM: Learning Coarse Semantic Units for Speech Language Models

Alan Baade, Puyuan Peng, David Harwath

Language models require tokenized inputs. However, tokenization strategies for continuous data like audio and vision are often based on simple heuristics such as fixed sized convol…

cs.CV2024

Action2Sound: Ambient-Aware Generation of Action Sounds from Egocentric Videos

Changan Chen, Puyuan Peng, Ami Baid +4

Generating realistic audio for human actions is important for many applications, such as creating sound effects for films or virtual reality games. Existing approaches implicitly a…

eess.AS2024

VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild

Puyuan Peng, Po-Yao Huang, Shang-Wen Li +2

We introduce VoiceCraft, a token infilling neural codec language model, that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) on audi…

cs.CL2024

SpeechCLIP+: Self-supervised multi-task representation learning for speech via CLIP and speech-image data

Hsuan-Fu Wang, Yi-Jen Shih, Heng-Jui Chang +5

The recently proposed visually grounded speech model SpeechCLIP is an innovative framework that bridges speech and text through images via CLIP without relying on text transcriptio…

eess.AS2024

Integrating Self-supervised Speech Model with Pseudo Word-level Targets from Visually-grounded Speech Model

Hung-Chieh Fang, Nai-Xuan Ye, Yi-Jen Shih +5

Recent advances in self-supervised speech models have shown significant improvement in many downstream tasks. However, these models predominantly centered on frame-level training o…

eess.AS2024★ 1 cited

BAT: Learning to Reason about Spatial Sounds with Large Language Models

Zhisheng Zheng, Puyuan Peng, Ziyang Ma +3

Spatial sound reasoning is a fundamental human skill, enabling us to navigate and interpret our surroundings based on sound. In this paper we present BAT, which combines the spatia…

cs.CL2023

Audio-Visual Neural Syntax Acquisition

Cheng-I Jeff Lai, Freda Shi, Puyuan Peng +10

We study phrase structure induction from visually-grounded speech. The core idea is to first segment the speech waveform into sequences of word segments, and subsequently induce ph…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

AV-SUPERB: A Multi-Task Evaluation Benchmark for Audio-Visual Representation Models

Yuan Tseng, Layne Berry, Yi-Ting Chen +16

Audio-visual representation learning aims to develop systems with human-like perception by utilizing correlation between auditory and visual information. However, current models of…

cs.CL2023

Style-transfer based Speech and Audio-visual Scene Understanding for Robot Action Sequence Acquisition from Videos

Chiori Hori, Puyuan Peng, David Harwath +7

To realize human-robot collaboration, robots need to execute actions for new tasks according to human instructions given finite prior knowledge. Human experts can share their knowl…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

Syllable Discovery and Cross-Lingual Generalization in a Visually Grounded, Self-Supervised Speech Model

Puyuan Peng, Shang-Wen Li, Okko Räsänen +2

In this paper, we show that representations capturing syllabic units emerge when training a self-supervised speech model with a visually-grounded training objective. We demonstrate…

eess.AS2023

Prompting the Hidden Talent of Web-Scale Speech Models for Zero-Shot Task Generalization

Puyuan Peng, Brian Yan, Shinji Watanabe +1

We investigate the emergent abilities of the recently proposed web-scale speech model Whisper, by adapting it to unseen tasks with prompt engineering. We selected three tasks: audi…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Zero-shot Video Moment Retrieval With Off-the-Shelf Models

Anuj Diwan, Puyuan Peng, Raymond J. Mooney

For the majority of the machine learning community, the expensive nature of collecting high-quality human-annotated data and the inability to efficiently finetune very large state-…

eess.AS2022★ 2 cited

MAE-AST: Masked Autoencoding Audio Spectrogram Transformer

Alan Baade, Puyuan Peng, David Harwath

In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful improvement over the recent Self-Supervised Audio Spectrogram Transformer (SSAST) model for speech and audio classification. Specifi…

eess.AS2022★ 19 cited

Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Speech Using Visual Grounding and Masked Language Modeling

Puyuan Peng, David Harwath

In this paper, we describe our submissions to the ZeroSpeech 2021 Challenge and SUPERB benchmark. Our submissions are based on the recently proposed FaST-VGS model, which is a Tran…

eess.AS2022

Word Discovery in Visually Grounded, Self-Supervised Speech Models

Puyuan Peng, David Harwath

We present a method for visually-grounded spoken term discovery. After training either a HuBERT or wav2vec2.0 model to associate spoken captions with natural images, we show that p…

eess.AS2021★ 7 cited

Fast-Slow Transformer for Visually Grounding Speech

Puyuan Peng, David Harwath

We present Fast-Slow Transformer for Visually Grounding Speech, or FaST-VGS. FaST-VGS is a Transformer-based model for learning the associations between raw speech waveforms and vi…

eess.AS2020★ 8 cited

A Correspondence Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings

Puyuan Peng, Herman Kamper, Karen Livescu

We propose a new unsupervised model for mapping a variable-duration speech segment to a fixed-dimensional representation. The resulting acoustic word embeddings can form the basis…